Quick Look

Policies Panel

In the Policies panel, you can add or delete policies for hosts and services in this panel.

Feature

Description

Displays available service types to create a new policy . Select one so that you can define a policy or policies for it.

Deletes the selected policy from the Policies panel. You can only delete one policy at a time.

Allows you to change the name of the policy.

Creates a copy of the selected policy. For example, if you select First Policy and click , NetWitness Platform creates a copy of this policy and names it First Policy (1).

Expands the list of policies under the services and hosts in the Policies panel.

Contracts the list of policies under the services and hosts in the Policies panel.

List of:

Services and hosts for which you have defined policies.

RSA standard policies that you can apply to hosts and services.

Policy Detail Panel

The Policy Detail panel displays the policy selected from the Policies panel.

Feature

Description

Save

Saves any changes you made in this panel.

Policy Type

Displays the type of policy you selected.

Modified Date

Displays the last date this policy was modified.

Enable

Select and deselect this checkbox to enable and disable the policy.

Services

Displays menu in which you select:

Groups to display the Groups dialog from which you select service groups to this policy.

Service/Host to display the Services/Hosts dialog from which you select services to add to this policy. If policy type is Host, the menu will have Host not Service. You can select services based on policy type.

Deletes the selected service or group from this policy.

Rules

Displays the Add Rule dialog in which you define a rule for this policy.

Deletes the selected rule from this policy.

Displays the Edit Rule dialog for the selected rule.

Policy Suppression

Adds a policy suppression timeframe row.

Deletes the selected policy suppression timeframe row.

Time Zone

Selects the time zone for the Policy from the drop-down list. This time zone applies to both Policy Suppression and Rule Suppression.

Selects the checkbox to select a policy suppression timeframe row.

Days

Days of the week that you want to suppress the policy according to the time range specified. Click on the day of the week that you want to suppress the policy. You can select any combination of days including all days.

Time Range

Time range during which the policy is suppressed for the days selected.

Notifications

Adds an EMAIL notification row.

Deletes the selected policy suppression timeframe row.

Notification Settings

Opens the Notification Servers view in which you can define the Email notification settings.

Selecting the checkbox selects a policy suppression time frame row.

Output

The type of notification defined on the Global Notifications page. Can be email, SNMP, Syslog, or Script.

Recipient

The name of the person receiving the notification.

Notification Server

Select the EMAIL notification server. See "Configure Notification Servers" in the System Configuration Guide for the source of the values in this drop-down list.

Template

Select the Template for this EMAIL notification. RSA provides the Health & Wellness Default SMTP Template and the alarms template. See" Configure Notification Templates"in the System Configuration Guide for the source of the other values in this drop-down list.

Note: Refer to Include the Default Email Subject Line if you want to include the default Email subject line from the Health & Wellness template in your Health & Wellness Email notifications for specified recipients.

Groups dialog

Feature

Description

Groups panel

Name

Displays the service groups you have defined. You can select:

All to display all your services in the Services panel.

A group to display the services in comprise that group in the Services panel.

Services panel

Name

Displays the name of the service.

Host

Displays the host on which the service is running.

Type

Displays the type of service.

Rules Dialog

Feature

Description

Enable

Select and deselect this checkbox to enable and disable the rule for this policy.

Name

Enter the name of the rule.

Description

Enter the description of the rule. RSA suggests that you include the following information in this field.

Informational description - purpose of the rule and what problem it monitors.

Remediation - steps to take to resolve the condition that triggers the alarm for this rule.

Severity

Select the severity of the rule. Valid values are:

Critical

High

Medium

Low

Statistic

Select the statistics you want to check with this rule. You can select:

Statistical category from the left drop-down list.

Statistic from the right drop-down list.

Note: For Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) policy, select PKI in the category and statistics as any one of the following:- NetWitness Server PKI Certificate Expiration - Displays the time left before the certificate expires.- NetWitness Server PKI CRL Expiration - Displays the time left before the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) expires.- NetWitness Server PKI CRL Status - Displays the current status of the CRL.

For NetWitness Platform 10.5.0.1 and later (See Threshold Operators below)

Amount

Time in minutes

Rule Suppression

Selecting this option allows you to add a rule suppression timeframe row.

Selecting this option allows you to delete the selected rule suppression time frame row.

Selecting the checkbox allows you to select a rule suppression time frame row.

Time Zone: time-zone

Displays the Policy time zone. You select the time zone for a policy in the Policy Suppression panel.

Days

Days of the week that you want to suppress the rule according to the time range specified. Click on the day of the week that you want to suppress the rule. You can select any combination of days including all days.

Time Range

Time range during which the rule is suppressed for the days selected.

Threshold Operators

The Alarm Threshold and Recovery Threshold fields in the Rules dialog prompt you for either numeric or string operators based on the statistic criteria you specify.